Why?

"macanamera" (macanamera) 10/16/2014 at 12:09 • Filed to: None

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Why is it illegal to talk on your phone while driving, but perfectly legal to scarf down a double Big Mac while driving?

Update- thanks guys, I should have realized it was because MURICA.

For Sweden > macanamera 10/16/2014 at 12:10

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A double Big Mac requires less attention.

Where are you finding double Big Macs?

Nibbles > macanamera 10/16/2014 at 12:11

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Because Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > macanamera 10/16/2014 at 12:11

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Because MURICA

HammerheadFistpunch > macanamera 10/16/2014 at 12:11

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talking on your phone doesn't give you the mega nutrients to stave off the dangerously underweight epidemic sweeping the country. its for the greater good.

Nibby > macanamera 10/16/2014 at 12:12

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BECAUSE 'MURICA

Tohru > macanamera 10/16/2014 at 12:14

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Why is it illegal to get road head, but legal to scarf down a Culver's mushroom and swiss burger? It's just stuffing meat in your mouth.

macanamera > For Sweden 10/16/2014 at 12:16

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Oh they will make it. Just ask.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > macanamera 10/16/2014 at 12:16

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Because America.

ZiptieMcBumper > macanamera 10/16/2014 at 12:17

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I have no idea. But then again, I've had plenty of close calls with people nearly hitting me while on the phone. I've never been run off the road by someone holding a cheeseburger.

crowmolly > macanamera 10/16/2014 at 12:17

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Something like incidence rate, probably.

EL_ULY > macanamera 10/16/2014 at 12:18

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mmmmmm!!!!!!!

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > macanamera 10/16/2014 at 12:19

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Found the fatty!

No but seriously I think it actually is illegal (falling under driving while distracted) but I can drive and eat without looking at my food which keeps my eyes on the road. Texting you have to look at the screen which takes your eyes off the road. That's my guess.

DoYouEvenShift > macanamera 10/16/2014 at 12:20

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Thank you! And gulp down 64oz drinks and chain smoking.

claramag, Mustaco Master > macanamera 10/16/2014 at 12:21

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Because America

Snooder87 > macanamera 10/16/2014 at 12:21

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Because panic and hysteria.

Basically, cell phones are new, and therefore scary. So people panic about the same accident causing distractions that we've had and ignored for decades now. I guarantee if the in car radio was a new invention and not something from the era of lax vehicle safety rules, we'd be unable to change stations unless the car was stopped.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Tohru 10/16/2014 at 12:21

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vs stuffing meat in someone else's mouth.

spanfucker retire bitch > Nibby 10/16/2014 at 12:22

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Funny, yet extremely poignant.

Love it.

Aaron James > macanamera 10/16/2014 at 12:24

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Just don't forget the extra large diet coke with that double big mac.

Brian Silvestro > macanamera 10/16/2014 at 12:28

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I NEVER KNEW YOU COULD DO THIS IN AMERICA

I've only seen double Big Macs in Canada.

*runs out of class, to McDonalds*

Trevor Slattery, ACTOR > macanamera 10/16/2014 at 12:32

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I have outright asked my police officer friends and relatives why I can't text and talk while driving and they have laptops open and functioning in their cars. They get touchy about that.

macanamera > Snooder87 10/16/2014 at 12:44

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Cell phones are new?

macanamera > ZiptieMcBumper 10/16/2014 at 12:44

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That's because this is America and they scarf that cheeseburger down so fast you can't even see it.

macanamera > Brian Silvestro 10/16/2014 at 12:45

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If they say they wont make it, say "I thought this was America"

Brian Silvestro > macanamera 10/16/2014 at 12:46

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And make a whole scene. Make sure to find a guy in a Bat costume and fight him.

OPPOsaurus WRX > For Sweden 10/16/2014 at 12:57

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they had triple quart pounders hidden in some obscure menu at McDonalds but didn;t show up on t he board behind the counter. You could also add a patty if you so felt the need. I ate a full pounder one day then had to replace the toilet.

Tohru > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 10/16/2014 at 13:03

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It's all consensual though.

Meatcoma > macanamera 10/16/2014 at 13:22

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Because you don't scarf down a double Big Mac every 5 minutes.

Snooder87 > macanamera 10/16/2014 at 13:31

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I remember my dad still had a pager and no cellphone in 1999. And he's a doctor. They didn't become ubiquitous until the early 2000s. That's recent enough that the sorts of people who make these laws have spent way more of their lives without cellphones than with them.

macanamera > Meatcoma 10/16/2014 at 13:34

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Clearly you have never been to America.

The Compromiser > macanamera 10/16/2014 at 21:04

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Up here in Canuckistan, the Peshwartario region, both are distracted driving and therefore illegal.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > macanamera 10/17/2014 at 00:22

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I usually have my Big Macs made with Quarter Pounder patties. Mmmm, meaty...

Meatcoma > macanamera 10/17/2014 at 08:29

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Let me rephrase. After your first heart attack, you don't scarf down a double Big Mac every 5 minutes.

offyatindy > Meatcoma 10/17/2014 at 12:38

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Clearly you have never been to America !